Shared Design Alliance – „advocates for and demonstrates the value of sharing the design information contained in physical products, and produces infrastructure to make design sharing and modification easy and efficient“

SPI – non-profit organisation founded to help organisations to develop and distribute open hardware and software

Sustainability Knowledge Network – Information and workspace on sustainability projects (for example the Bhopal Initiative on Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing and Use and Sustainable Community development)

Commercial ICT-Projects

Adafruit Industries – Open design for various electronic gadgets, sale and development of open source bases

Arduino – Open-source electronics prototyping platforms, the boards can be bought or be built by hand, the software and design is open and can be changed and further developed

BUG – Open source modular system to build devices by BUG Labs; Bug Base (a Linux embedded computer) and various electronic modules like MP3-player, GPS etc. can be bought and build together. The source code, the software and the hardware design are free and can be developed and further developed

Daisy mp3 – Open MP3-player toolkit, all hardware and software components are open

LEON – 32-bit CPU microprocessor core, originally designed by the European Space Research and Technology Centre, part of the European Space Agency, and after that by Gaisler Research. It is licensed under GNU General Public License for LEON3 versions and GNU Lesser General Public License for LEON1 and LEON2 versions